This, along with hotels that hide their only PowerPoint behind the bed but have 50 bloody phone jacks, are my pet peeves. But it kinda makes sense when you consider they were mostly built before the days of having a ton of devices in the bedroom. A lamp and alarm clock, maybe a TV if you’re well off, would’ve been perfectly fine for a lot of people
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile landlords: "one 50 year old outlet should be enough for two bedrooms right?*
Baku@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The absolute worst is when the Word Documents are stashed away in some random drawer. Or when you find an Excel spreadsheet under the mattress!
kungen@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Not so awful, but it’s disappointing when you open the drawer expecting a Bible, but there’s only OneNote there.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I really wish my autocorrect would stop doing that. I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actually wanted to write “PowerPoint”. I couldn’t even count on 10 hands the amount of times it’s assumed I’m some kind of idiot that doesn’t know “PowerPoint” is a single word when I type “power point”
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like when it only autocorrects the second word. “I’m going to home Depot”
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I once read a theory on an electricians forum about how the USA electrical code’s mandated maximum distance between adjacent outlets on a wall, coupled with the typical bedroom layout, as well as home builders trying to be as cheap as possible, led to only a single outlet being placed directly in the middle of the longest wall. This is also the most logical position for a bed, so the theory is that the bed pressing against the outlet over time was a contributing factor to electrical-related house fires.
I cannot find where I read that originally, and certainly the granularity of nationally-reported fire data is not sufficient to prove that theory. And while the electrical code’s distance requirements haven’t changed, more homes will now put enough outlets so the only one isn’t behind the bed.
Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Years ago, I used to play live music. We played in a lot of shitty dive bars. Thinking back on all the ancient decrepit plugs we used to power our instruments, amplifiers, and stage lights with…it’s a miracle we never started a fire. Nightmare fuel now that I’m older and a little bit wiser.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
50 years old? Most of the landlords I’ve dealt with in my life consider 100 year old outlets to be perfectly sufficient, along with their carrying capacity and number in each room.
“ it was enough to power a lightbulb in 1925, so it should be perfectly sufficient for your needs with all of your TVs and computers and such.”
With one landlord, I actually had to call the city inspector into the building in order to verify that the power supply for each apartment fell beneath city requirements. He spent the next three years doing everything in his power to get me out. It cost him 50 grand.